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YOU DON'T NEED A GOOD
EDUCATION TO LEAD THE GOOD
LIFE http://bit.ly/9HbCDE
by Ted Maxwell

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YOU DON'T NEED A GOOD
EDUCATION TO LEAD THE GOOD
LIFE http://bit.ly/9HbCDE

FOR THE MOTION

KELVIN MACKENZIE
http://bit.ly/aUTIIt

Uses himself as living proof; he left school
with only one O Level (in English
Literature) and went on to edit the Sun.

Education clouds the mind from
commercial and entrepreneurial
success.

Opportunity is missed, and
along with it, the good life.

LYNN BARBER http://bit.ly/9RKHQ9

Worked at Penthouse Magazine for seven
years and saw that as a 'terrific
education' - unlearning prejudices from
school and Oxford. A vast majority of her
interviewees describe themselves as
duds at school.

There are very few
careers where a good
education is actually
necessary. And there
is no universally
accepted view of the
good life.

"The good life is the life you create for
yourself. And I feel that it begins at the
point where formal education leaves
off."

AGAINST THE MOTION

GERMAINE GREER http://bit.ly/dpYmKw

Education itself is the good life.

To educate a child is to
draw out 'talents' and
'potentiality'.

Academia does not give all
the answers.

FELIPE FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO
http://bit.ly/bWVEdA

'Good learning and good
lives are inextricably allied.'

You need help - education - in order to
maximise your potential, and enjoy a
good and fulfilled life.

'No matter how much you rely on
experience, you need the vicarious
experience which comes from great
teaching...without that your life is
stunted because education is
accelerated experience.'

QUESTIONS FROM THE
FLOOR http://bit.ly/aH1yLQ

You [the panel] are all from generation X,
post-war boom, welfare state, retirement
fund. Where is the good life for the 'lost
generation'?

Kelvin Mackenzie, I think you've had it easy and you have the option to go
to your parents! I do shed a tear for the 500,000
students going to university next year, who will join a
working world with graduate unemployment at 14%.

Is it really important if we can't
read?

Germaine Greer, In our society it is important
because we have letters
everywhere. But in other
societies much less so.
Where there is less literacy
people develop a better
memory.

What would each on the panel recommend to the
Secretary of State for Education as to what he might do
to provide a better education so that society can lead a
collective better life?

Kelvin Mackenzie, Ban teaching unions. And secondly, no more
change. For seven years we should live
with it, the exams stay the same. Constant
change puzzles the teachers and the
parents.

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Think about fundamental questions about what a good
education is and what the good life is. Instead of
thinking about impact and league tables and all that
nonsense.

Germaine Greer, Make sure you can have as many different
types of school as possible. There should
be no one blueprint.